David Balmain wrote:
The start of my benchmarks are here:

http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/FerretVsLucene

Ferret looks fast!  Nice work.

A big knee in indexing performance occurs when indexes get much larger than memory, when merging requires a lot of disk i/o. In these cases the algorithm can matter more than its implementation. (The implementation only needs to be fast enough so that i/o dominates.) Would you expect Ferret to perform markedly differently than Lucene Java when updating, e.g., 50GB indexes on a machine with 512MB of RAM?

Lots of indexes are smaller than memory and their updates don't require a lot of disk i/o. It's important to be fast in that case too, and your benchmarks show Ferret doing quite well there.

Doug

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